1 In June 2005, Tony Baldry, MP for Banbury, wrote to the Comptroller and Auditor General raising concerns regarding the resources which the Home Office had spent on the abortive accommodation programme, and specifically about the decision to cancel Bicester Accommodation Centre, which was to have been built in his constituency as part of a pilot for the accommodation programme. The C&AG's findings on what happened, how much it cost and the eventual decision to cancel Bicester Accommodation Centre are set out in this report. The decision to pilot accommodation centres began in 2001 and the decision not to go ahead was taken in 2005. (For our methodology in this review, see Appendix 1 and for a full timeline, see Appendix 2.)